Assumption Cathedral: obtaining the status of a lavra

"First National", 2004. The news story covers the ceremonial events on the occasion of the Svyatogorsk Monastery gaining the status of a lavra.

On the video: views of the Svyatogorsk Lavra; a monastery on chalk cliffs; the Seversky Donets River; monks of the monastery; a stone cross and a font; blessing by Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine; among those present is Lyudmila Yanukovych; a fragment of a solemn service; consecration of a memorial sign in honor of the Virgin Mary.

Commenting: Archbishop Augustyn of Lviv and Halytskyi; Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) of Kyiv and All Ukraine.

Inessa Ishchenko worked on the plot.